about jodie

Jodie would like to be considered a milliner, but she admits that her hats are more collages of pre-existing things. In the past they were big and extreme. “They were hats because you wore them on your head, but not hats, per se," she says. "They were bizarre creations of my imagination. I want to be considered more of a performance artist, for overall spectacle.”

Her dream is to have a hat retrospective. It would legitimize her craziness, as she puts it. “I take over the house with weird stuff,” Jodie concedes. That weird stuff is, in my opinion, part of her charm. Jodie’s whole apartment is a warm, wonderful study in color and style, from the bathroom resplendent in Madonnas and other Catholic iconography, to the brilliantly colored collection of American art pottery (Stengel, McCoy, Haeger, Fiestaware, Roseville) and the big blue fish over the fireplace. (Jodie has no qualms about mixing high and low art: “You can elevate anything to the proper level.”) Even looking in her closets to see how she’s organized her art supplies is mesmerizing.

(Excerpt from Jodie Trapani's Easter Hats by Justine Blau / thehairpin.com)
Photo © 2015 Julien McRoberts

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